WELCOME TO AFRICAN FUTURISMS!

The fourth edition of „Treffpunkt Afrika“ with this year’s festival topic „African Futurisms“ will provide insights into African and African diasporic imaginations of the future and its utopias in the field of art & culture.
International artists and cultural professionals will offer space for discussion during a two-day symposium, film screenings and concerts, bringing us closer to their futuristic ideas in their role as time travelers and representatives of alternative visions of the world.

Festival venues are Stadtwerkstatt and AEC Seminarraum.

Come and join us!

Where

Stadtwerkstatt Linz &
Ars Electronica Center
Linz, Austria

When

Thursday to Saturday
20- 22 Sept. 2018

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Festival Schedule

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  • DAY 1 - THU 20.09.18

    Donnerstag, 20.09.18

  • Starting with the reading „Virus!" by Ghanaian science-fiction writer, afrofuturist, and digital hypermedia artist Jonathan Dotse and followed by the screenings of two afrofuturistic short films from Kenya and Nigeria, we will celebrate the past, the present and the future with none other than South African GQOM king DJ Lag!
    SYMPOSIUM
    FILM
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • (Dir. Jim Chuchu, The Nest Collective, Kenia 2017, 5min) A young Kenyan visual artist comes up with......
    FILM
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • (Dir. C.J. Obasi, 2018, Nigeria, 30min) Three scientist witches who through a combination of juju and technology create magical wigs which grants them untold supernatural powers. As with everything, power corrupts ...
    FILM
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • Born & grown in Linz, I started working with the Klub Sir3ne family in 2010 after moving to Vienna and being heavily influenced by the local Dub and Dubstep scene....
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • DJ Hooray: An afrofuturistic journey from Sun Ra to Hip hop ...
    NIGHTLINE

  • A pioneer of – and ambassador for – gqom music, DJ Lag hails from the scene’s birthplace in the South African city of Durban.....
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • DAY 2 - FRI 21.09.18

    Freitag, 21.09.18

  • Florence Okoye (UK) - Online talk: „An analysis of #WeAreNigerianCreatives in light of Ben Ewnowu’s Tutu“
    SYMPOSIUM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. Selly Raby Kane, Senegal 2017, 7:35min) A Senegalese girl is chosen to journey through the surreal, invisible life-force of her city...
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum Foyer

  • (Dir. Jonathan Dotse, Ghana 2017, 8:34min) VR documentary which explores the Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Accra
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum Foyer

  • This talk addresses the tenets of Afro-Pessimism in relation to the condition of slavery, blackness, music and pop culture.....
    SYMPOSIUM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • Jonathan Dotse (Ghana)
    SYMPOSIUM

  • (Dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, South Africa, Cameroun 2016, 62min) Wanita leaves home one morning, not knowing that her first prayer to her own ancestors has started her journey to the Dimsi - the earth you can't see...
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. John Akomfrah, UK 1995, 45min) Framed by the fictional story of the "data thief", this hybrid documentary takes a look at the origins, impact and significance of Afrofuturism and techno music for the black diaspora...
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • Rare-tunes of Afrofuturism ...
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    Cafe Strom

  • Freak de l’Afrique is a team of DJs, MCs & producers who share a common passion for modern African club sounds such as Afrobeats, Afro House, Coupé Décalé & Kuduro...
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • Specializing in pop and funk-based dance music, G.rizo has a versatile range with over a decade of musical excursions in electro, disco, techno and house...
    NIGHTLINE

  • DAY 3 - SAT 22.09.18

    Samstag, 22.09.18

  • Kulturen in Bewegung: Let’s talk about Dis-Othering #2 - A self reflection on cultural identity With: Ihu Anyanwu (Musician, Performing Artist), Marie Edwige Hartig (Chair Verein Jaapo, Politician), Hemma Schmutz (Director for the Museums of the City of Linz) | Moderated by: Victoria Windtner (Writer, Journalist) | Discussion in English & German
    SYMPOSIUM

  • Online introduction and Q&A with Tabita Rezaire (French Guyana): "Deep Down Tidal" A video essay in typical net.art style, weaving cosmological, spiritual, political and technological narratives about water and its role in colonialism, then and now...
    SYMPOSIUM

  • Stephen Ibaaku Bassene (Senegal) - Talk: "Musical approach and artistic developments in Dakar in regards to African Futurisms" Discover with Ibaaku the new Dakar. The Dakar that makes a new lively and thriving scene flourish. The talk will focus on some of these artists and their futurist/ afro-futurist approaches and proposals.
    SYMPOSIUM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. Jonathan Dotse, Ghana 2017, 8:34min) VR documentary which explores the Chale Wote Street Art Festival in Accra
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum Foyer

  • (Dir. Selly Raby Kane, Senegal 2017, 7:35min) A Senegalese girl is chosen to journey through the surreal, invisible life-force of her city...
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum Foyer

  • https://mawenayehouessi.fr
    SYMPOSIUM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. Iman Djionne Senegal 2016, 25min) After getting hit by a motorbike, Adama, a bored 17-year-old hairdresser, finds boxing gloves...
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. Chris Saunders, South Africa 2016, 24:50min) A strange meeting and a gift transform a young Zulu woman (Manthe Ribane) into a powerful and mysterious character known as Ghost Kat...
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. Cédric Ido, France 2011, 24min) In the year 2100, the rise of the oceans, heat waves and the disappearance of coastal regions are the result of the climate change that has befallen the planet.
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • (Dir. Jahmil X.T. Qubeka, South Africa & China, 2017, 24min) This Xhosa Sci-fi film answers the question "Where Has Time Gone?"
    FILM
    Where
    AEC Seminarraum

  • Nana (Highlight Intl.) Afrobeats, Afrotrap , UK Afrobashment
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    Cafe Strom

  • Tonica Hunter, from London, of Jamaican heritage, is a practitioner of various community-focused strategies which promote activism through arts and culture...
    NIGHTLINE
    Where
    STWST Saal

  • Ibaaku (Senegal) The city of Dakar is invaded by Aliens. The meeting of the land with the Aliens will shake the codes. Everyone must tame the other. Love between an Alien and a Terran is born a hybrid: IBAAKU His show transports you to the Afro-futuristic universe of a new African era. Let yourself go on the Seneg-Alien’s space shift to measure the unique power of this cosmic being from Dakar’s nights.
    NIGHTLINE

  • When Christelle Oyiri gets behind the desks she goes by Crystallmess, always DJ-ing with a sense of urgency and generosity...
    NIGHTLINE

Our Guests

A new era of Africa

The international art and culture festival „African Futurisms“ aims to engage in a variety of ways with the contemporary art avant-garde of Africa and the African diaspora in Europe. Creators of art and culture will present and discuss African future scenarios and visionary utopias. Current developments on the African continent will be artistically illuminated. A differentiated mosaic of an African-diasporic modernity characterized by globalization, digitization and urbanity should emerge, which at the same time represents the starting point for a reflection on Western projections.

Video by IBAAKU – Monkey Boy